Nursing Home Compare
Go to (http://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html) and search for a nursing facility that you have visited in the past. If you have never visited a nursing facility in the United States, select one from Bowling Green, ky (zip code 42101) or your hometown.
- Note how your selected nursing facility rates in each of the following quality measurement categories:
- Health Inspections
- Staffing
- Quality Measures
- Explore the website further and review the data for each measurement category. Then answer the following
- Which of these performance measures do you believe is most important to potential customers of healthcare services? Why?
- Which performance measure is least important to the consumers? Why?
- Should consumers use this website as part of their process to select a nursing facility? Why or why not?
- What other factors, data, information or methods should a consumer seek out and utilize when choosing a nursing facility?
- If you have visited this nursing facility, do you agree with the ratings it has received by CMS?